Historical Fiction

Synopsis In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barðu...

Synopsis Vespasian #7. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has set his heart on a new wife but to clear a path for her, he must firs...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2017. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's ...

Synopsis Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland . . . no place for a lady. Isabel Aird is agh...

Synopsis The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Adding...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2019. "They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I ...

Synopsis Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for July 2018. Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club. In 1627, Barbary pirates raided an island off t...

Synopsis 1468 . . . dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fa...

Synopsis Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is con...

Synopsis From the Whitbread Award winning author of: A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award winning Restless, a sweeping, electrifying new novel ...

Synopsis Cato & Marco Book #17 Sunday Times Bestseller. The gripping and action-packed new adventure in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of t...

Synopsis Shardlake #5 England, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is prepari...

Synopsis An Observer Hotly-Tipped Debut Author. Shortlisted for many Historical Fiction Prizes - 2019-20. As the First World War shatters familie...

Synopsis From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of Lond...

Synopsis Cato & Marco Book (Eagles of The Empire) Book #14 Now a Sunday Times bestseller! Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a c...

Synopsis With an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Shusaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiec...

Synopsis From the creator of Downton Abbey. Now a major ITV drama. This is the story of a secret, A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors...

Synopsis Manchester, 1819. Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are alarmed by their calls for reform. Mill-w...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and th...

Synopsis 'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian ...

Synopsis The Second World War - a mother must make a heartbreaking sacrifice in order to save her child. A poignant and powerful family saga from t...

Synopsis Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. In the heat of Rome's long ...

Synopsis  A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. Theo Miller is young, bright and ambitious when he and his earnest younger sister Maud step off the tr...

Synopsis Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. ...

Synopsis A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, Fools & Mortals takes us into the heart of the Elizab...

Synopsis Cromwell Trilogy #2 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. Winner of the Costa Book of The Year 2012. Bringing Up the Bodies is a historical...

Synopsis On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a...

Synopsis The Other Boleyn Girl is a historical novel written by British author Philippa Gregory, loosely based on the life of 16th-century aristocr...

Synopsis Winner of the 1970 the Lost Man Booker prize. Troubles is a modern classic by a superb writer. Insights into 20th Century life in Ireland,...

Synopsis "It was so twentieth century and concrete and hard and opened up to the sky with no alleys or big wooden doorways. ‘Unforgiving’ might be ...

Synopsis Cicero Trilogy #1 Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro - the invent...

Synopsis Set in Britain during the 1950's, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their liv...

Synopsis Longlisted for the Booker Prize. After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe -...

Synopsis The Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award. Overall Book of the Year - British Book Awards 2017 (Ni...

Synopsis Glide Path is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1963. Glide Path is Clarke's only non-science fiction novel. It is set during Worl...

Synopsis Tudor Saga #8. Jean Plaidy's Tudor series continues with the scandalous and heartbreaking story of Margaret Tudor, a princess who leaves E...

Synopsis Newly discovered, and with an introduction by Johnny Depp, this is legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel: a c...

Synopsis The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who...

Synopsis Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 & Multi-Award Winning. 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and wh...

Synopsis Assegai is Wilbur Smith's thirty-second novel, it follows The Triumph of the Sun in which the author brought the Courtney and Ballantyne s...

Synopsis 1st of the Kingsbridge Trilogy. Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestsell...